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Erin Forbes

Assistant Professor of EnglishAffiliated with the Program in African American and Diaspora StudiesPh.D. Princeton University, English 2009 M.A., Princeton University, English 2005 B.A., Reed College, English 2002

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Erin Forbes teaches American, African American, and Diasporic literature of the 18th-21st centuries. She has published on U.S. and African American literature of the long nineteenth century, with a special focus on aesthetics, history, politics, race and environment. Forbes is currently finishing a book The Criminal’s Genius: Aesthetic Agency in American Literature, which identifies and describes collective, distributed conceptions of agency at the intersections of criminality and creativity.